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Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at Downing Street on Friday. Despite winning a landslide in terms of seats, Labour’s mandate is much weaker than it looks (Photo: 10DowningStreet/Flickr)

Starmer's UK 'sandcastle' landslide points to cautious EU agenda

Dozens of leading Brexiteers were among those MPs swept away in the early hours of Friday morning (5 July) as the UK Labour party overturned a Conservative majority of 80 and won 412 out of 650 seats in Westminster. 

Voters ruthlessly punished the Conservatives, who have been in power since 2010, with fo...

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria arrive at Downing Street on Friday. Despite winning a landslide in terms of seats, Labour’s mandate is much weaker than it looks (Photo: 10DowningStreet/Flickr)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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